Three New Titles For Your May Book Club

The must-reads out this month.

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution"The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind," decrees Egyptian-American firebrand Mona Eltahawy in her stirring polemic Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), an unflinching look at Middle Eastern and North African Arab women as victims of religious, cultural, and economic oppression.

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The Love ObjectThe Love Object (Little, Brown) gathers 31 of groundbreaking storyteller Edna O'Brien's majestic, heart-crossed tales about women—sophisticated or plain, scorned or adored— marked by their modern sensibilities and indomitable spirits: characters "suffused with the light of the far west of Ireland," writes John Banville in his introductory homage.

The Marriage BookThe Marriage Book, edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler (Simon & Schuster), is a widely researched, generously illustrated, and essentially optimistic alphabet—from Adam and Eve to In-Laws to Zoloft—of what the married authors call "the private, perilous, hopeful journey from I to we."